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storks. -, .'
. That fills another niche in the
Ananaias club. Or should lie go
in the Nature Fakers' club.
Chan Sing, alias Neg Hdng,
1 Chinese, charged with murder of
Much Chun in Chicago Tuesday
night, arrested at Beloit, Wis.
Harry Kupkowski, 24, Mil
waukee, stole 95 cents. Three
years in penitentiary.
Charles W. Morse, bank wreck
er, started for Europe yesterday,
having been granted a commuta
tion of sentence by a grateful
country.
Pure Food Wiley, president of
Consumers' League, Washing
ton, urges artistic covers for
bread.
We can do without the artistic
covers, Doc, so long as we get the
bread.
Archduke .Charles Francis Jo
seph, of Austria, soon to start on
trip around the world. Will visit
America. It's a free country.
Mrs. John Bells, Starksville,
Miss., identified Mann Hamilton,
negro, as man who attacked and
beat her. Mob lynched Hamilton.
Bill appropriating, $17,000 to
protect Valde?, Alaska', from gla
cial, floods, introduced by Sena
tor Jones.
What's that got to dowith pro
tecting us from highbinder
trusts?
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San Francisco women voters
refused to remove their hats to
be measuered for height, as there
were no mirrors in V the 'booths.
Of course, they had it their way.
rCOMEDIAEDDIRFOY .
HAS INSPIRATION
New York, Feb. IS. Eddie
Foy, the comedian, has been in
spired by the Brandt case, and is
planning to make the life of Pres
ident Taft a "burden. Eddie was
quite excited aboutJt today. He
said:
"It was just because he wrote
so many letters that Brandt is
free today. Brandt would still
be in Clinton prison if he hadn't
written so many letters.
"Every time Brandt thought of
it, he sat down and wrote a letter
to the warden, or the governor, or
Taft, or someone about ne in
justice of his own case.
"What happened? "Well, isn't
Brandt free today ? I'm going to
start writing letters."
"To the public, about how good
a comedian you are?" suggested
the reporter.
"No, sir," said Foy. "Not to
the public at all. To President
Taft. And npt about me being
a comedian. About capital pun
ishment. I want it abolished."
"You don't mean to say you in-,
tend to kill some one?" exclaimed
the reporter.
Fpy glared at the reporter
balefully.
"I'm a comedian on the stage
only," he said.
"But what's the idea?" asked
the reporter.
"Evidently you don't read my
press agent's stories," said Foy.
'T don't believe in capital pun
ishment. I abhor it. It's just
doing one murder to punish an
other. I loathe capital punish-